[GRASS-dev] winGRASS Self Installer Package

Gerald Nelson gnelson at uiuc.edu
Thu Mar 6 09:56:22 EST 2008


Consider adding bc.exe from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.htm.

This is the bash calculator, which appears to work fine when run under msys. 

Jerry

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:48:05 +0100
>From: <marco.pasetti at alice.it>  
>Subject: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS Self Installer Package  
>To: "Benjamin Ducke" <benjamin.ducke at ufg.uni-kiel.de>
>Cc: grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
>
>   Hi Benjamin,
>    
>   I'm afraid, but I cannot find the thread...
>   I'm very close to finish the installer; these my
>   questions:
>    
>   1) name diplayed in the installer: GRASS 6.3.0RC5 or
>   GRASS 6.3.0RC5 for Windows or simply GRASS 6.3?
>    
>   2) MSYS files: I decided to include the whole MSYS
>   env, excluding MinGW, obvioulsy; list follows:
>   basename.exe
>   cut.exe
>   false.exe
>   id.exe
>   ls.exe
>   mv.exe
>   sed.exe
>   tar.exe
>   uniq.exe
>   bzip2.exe
>   date.exe
>   find.exe
>   info.exe
>   m4.exe
>   od.exe
>   sh.exe
>   tee.exe
>   vim.exe
>   cat.exe
>   diff.exe
>   fold.exe
>   infokey.exe
>   make.exe
>   patch.exe
>   sleep.exe
>   texindex.exe
>   wc.exe
>   chmod.exe
>   diff3.exe
>   gawk.exe
>   install-info.exe
>   makeinfo.exe
>   ps.exe
>   sort.exe
>   touch.exe
>   xargs.exe
>   cmp.exe
>   dirname.exe
>   grep.exe
>   install.exe
>   md5sum.exe
>   rm.exe
>   split.exe
>   tr.exe
>   comm.exe
>   env.exe
>   gzip.exe
>   less.exe
>   mkdir.exe
>   rmdir.exe
>   stty.exe
>   true.exe
>   cp.exe
>   expr.exe
>   head.exe
>   ln.exe
>   mount.exe
>   rxvt.exe
>   tail.exe
>   uname.exe
>    
>   what to keep, what to remove?
>   3) bin executables: there are actually some usefull
>   apps to add; thi is the list of my /bin exes (I
>   built a brand new msys env with grass only needed
>   libs):
>    
>   XMLTester.exe
>   flex.exe
>   gdalmanage.exe
>   invgeod.exe
>   ogrtindex.exe
>   tiff2bw.exe
>   tiffinfo.exe
>   bison.exe
>   gdal_contour.exe
>   gdaltindex.exe
>   invproj.exe
>   pal2rgb.exe
>   tiff2pdf.exe
>   tiffmedian.exe
>   bmp2tiff.exe
>   gdal_grid.exe
>   gdaltransform.exe
>   m4.exe
>   ppm2tiff.exe
>   tiff2ps.exe
>   tiffset.exe
>   cs2cs.exe
>   gdal_rasterize.exe
>   gdalwarp.exe
>   nad2bin.exe
>   proj.exe
>   tiff2rgba.exe
>   tiffsplit.exe
>   fax2ps.exe
>   gdal_translate.exe
>   geod.exe
>   nad2nad.exe
>   ras2tiff.exe
>   tiffcmp.exe
>   fax2tiff.exe
>   gdaladdo.exe
>   gif2tiff.exe
>   nearblack.exe
>   raw2tiff.exe
>   tiffcp.exe
>   fftw-wisdom.exe
>   gdalenhance.exe
>   gsl-histogram.exe
>   ogr2ogr.exe
>   rgb2ycbcr.exe
>   tiffdither.exe
>   flex++.exe
>   gdalinfo.exe
>   gsl-randist.exe
>   ogrinfo.exe
>   thumbnail.exe
>   tiffdump.exe
>    
>   what to keep, what to remove?
>    
>   Thanks
>    
>   Marco
>    
>
>     ------------------------------------------------
>
>   Da: grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org per conto di
>   Benjamin Ducke
>   Inviato: gio 06/03/2008 15.15
>   Cc: grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
>   Oggetto: Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS Self Installer
>   Package
>
>   I remember dimly that we discussed these things
>   before, a few
>   weeks back when I was trying to put together a new
>   WinGRASS
>   distribution. I think that Glynn posted a list of
>   useful tools for
>   inclusion to this mailing list, back then.
>
>   There are other useful things, such as wget, curl,
>   tar, unzip, awk,
>   sed, ...
>   Some of them may be needed by shell scripts.
>
>   Maybe it would be a good idea to put up a Wikipage
>   and start
>   adding these things to it?
>
>   Benjamin
>
>   Paul Kelly wrote:
>   > On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 marco.pasetti at alice.it wrote:
>   >
>   >> Hi,
>   >>
>   >>> First of all, I want to express my thanks on
>   behalf of students here
>   >>> who are using GRASS on Windows [...]
>   >>
>   >> you're welcome... did you already read my new
>   GRASS Windows Native
>   >> Binary Building Guide?
>   >>
>   http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/grass/BuildFromSource.html
>   >>
>   <http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/grass/BuildFromSource.html>
>   >> I'm updating it with packaging instructions
>   >> when I'll have enough free time I'll put it into
>   GRASS trac
>   >>
>   >>> My suggestion is that you include SQLite but not
>   PostgreSQL.[...]
>   >>
>   >> Do you think that libsqlite3-0.dll is enough? in
>   my (built) sqlite
>   >> directory I have /bin with 1 dll and 1 exe,
>   /include with only
>   >> includes and /lib dir with static libs.
>   >
>   > If you've compiled GRASS against the .dll then you
>   don't need the static
>   > libraries. If you've compiled GRASS against the
>   static libraries then
>   > you don't need to include anything - the required
>   libraries will be
>   > statically linked into the GRASS modules (you can
>   usually tell this if
>   > the size of the binaries is very large. I usually
>   delete the static
>   > libraries after compiling to make sure they are
>   not picked up by
>   > accident). You certainly don't need to include the
>   header files in
>   > include/ for a binary distribution - they are only
>   necessary for
>   > compiling. If there are some useful utility
>   programs in bin/ they may be
>   > worth sticking into the GRASS bin directory too,
>   e.g. gdalwarp.exe and
>   > gdalinfo.exe from GDAL and cs2cs.exe and
>   nad2bin.exe from PROJ.
>   >
>   > For a lot of packages though you just need the DLL
>   and can stick it
>   > straight into the GRASS $GISBASE/lib directory
>   before packaging up the
>   > binary distribution.
>   >
>   > Paul
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